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GARMENT (Application filed Sept. 22, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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DAVID RABINOWITZ, OF SPRINGVALLEY, NEW YORK.

GARM ENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 671,631, dated April 9, 1901.

`Application led September 22, 1900. Serial No.. 30,871. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern/ Be it known that I, DAVID RABINOWITZ, a` subject of the Czar of Russia, residing at Springvalley, in the county of Rockland and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garments; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in garments for male wear, and particularly to a shirt or shirt-vest which may be worn in hot weather with comfort and without the usual coat and vest and which will at the same time impart to the wearer thc appearance of wearing a vest.

The object of the invention is to provide a garment of this character which shall be light and cool, neat and dressy, and cheap to manufacture, and which in addition to performing in appearance the function of a shirt and vest will also support the trousers.

With this and other minor objects in view the invention consists in certain novel features of construction, as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a front view of a garment embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a back view thereof. Figs. 3 and 4 are similar views showing the lower ends of the vestfronts and the back ap turned up. Fig. 5 is a vertical section through one side of the shirt and one of the vest-fronts. Fig. 6 is a horizontal section thereof.

Like reference characters designate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

The numeral l in the drawings represents a dress-shirt of ordinary construction and of the open-front type, the bosom portions 2 being adapted to open in the usual way and be ing provided with holes 3 for the passage of buttons, studs, or like fastenings.

In accordance with my invention I apply to the front of the shirt, on opposite sides of the bosom, complelnental vest-front or shield portions t. These vest-front or shield por tions cover the sides of the shirt-front between the side seams and outer edges of the bosom portions and from the shoulder-seams to a point just below the bosom, and their lower ends are left free to form flaps 5, which ing a suitable distance from the fold-line.

are adapted to lap over upon the front of the trousers, similar to the front portions of a vest. The inner edges of the vest-fronts lap over upon the outer edges of the bosom portions to conceal the seams thereof and are sewed and curved to conform thereto, While the inner edges `.of the flaps 4. are provided one with buttonholes and the other with buttons, so as to adapt the same to be buttoned together after the manner of a vest. The flaps 5 may be provided with pockets 6, as shown.

To the back of the shirt is sewed, atits upper edge, a concealing-Hap '7,which is adapted to lap over upon the trousers at the back. This iiap is made of the same materialV as the shirt and preferably by doubling or folding the material of the back upon itself to form a fold or tuck and uniting the plies by stitch- At its lower edge and opposite ends the fiap is free from connection with the back-of the shirt, and upon the ends are tabs S, provided each with a buttonhole 9 to engage a button l0 on the inner face of the free adjacent outer end or edge of the vest-front 4 to hold said parts connected when the garment is in use.

In practice the garment is put on in the same way as an ordinary open-bosom shirt, the aps 5 and 7 being placed upon the outside of the trousers, the tabs 8 engaged with the buttons 9, and the inner edges of the vestfronts buttoned together. To support the trousers, elastic supportersll are provided and tted in either one of a series of loops 12, carried by a supporting-strap 13, two of these supporters being. provided at the front and one at the back to button onto the waistband of the trousers in the usual way. When the garment is thus put on, the use of suspenders is obviated, the waistband of the trousers is concealed from view, and the wearer appears to have on both a shirt and vest, although but a single garment is used in place of these two. The wearer is thus relieved of both weight and pressure and, as the garment is light, may keep comfortable in hot Weather.

The garment is advantageous in that it is simple in construction, light in weight, easily washed and put on and taken off, and cheap to manufacture.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new, and desire to seoure by of the trousers at the rear, tabs on the free ends of said flap to engage buttons on the ends of the vest-front aps? loops concealed by said flaps, and trousers-supporters passed through said loops, substantially as set forth.

In testimony wheleof-A I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witzo nesses.

DAVID RABINOWITZ.

Witnesses:

DAVID EDELMAN, JOHN KESSEL. 

